Development of an FPGA-based High-Speed Wireless Communication System in the 60GHz Frequency Band For CERN facilities and 5G deployment

The work is devoted in the development and the exploration of the capabilities of the state of art unlicensed 60GHz (V-Band) mm-wave band that has raised so much interest and attention from numerous companies and laboratories for implementing Multi-gigabit communications [17] and especially for the 5th generation of cellular network and wireless systems. Implementing a high wireless data transfer system requires a high bandwidth and the one around the 60GHz frequency turned out to be a very promising candidate [13]. In this thesis, different protocols were investigated and simulated on MATLAB and implemented on low-cost Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) in order to test its performance with different transmission protocols and systems and insure a robust communication system at the frequency band around 60GHz. Furthermore, the system was tested with a series of different binary sequences such as pseudo-random bi-nary sequences (PRBS-7, PRBS-15, PRBS-23 and PRBS-31) and a high data rate communication link also in the design. The link has been tested in the lab environment and two systems have successfully achieved a relatively low bit-error rate